A molecular conformational change induced self-assembly: from randomness to order

Wei Xu; Chi Zhang; Henkjan Gersen; Qiang Sun; Huihui Kong; Liang Dong; Kai Sheng; Qinggang Tan; Erik Lægsgaard; Flemming Besenbacher

doi:10.1039/C3CC40743H

A molecular conformational change induced self-assembly: from randomness to order

Wei Xu,*^ab Chi Zhang,^a Henkjan Gersen,^c Qiang Sun,^a Huihui Kong,^a Liang Dong,^a Kai Sheng,^a Qinggang Tan,^a Erik Lægsgaard^b and Flemming Besenbacher*^b

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^a College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Advanced Civil Engineering Materials (Ministry of Education), Tongji University, Caoan Road 4800, Shanghai 201804, P. R. China
E-mail: xuwei@tongji.edu.cn

^b Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
E-mail: fbe@inano.au.dk

^c Nanophysics and Soft Matter Group, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, UK

Abstract

From an interplay of high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging and density functional theory (DFT) calculations we reveal how a molecular conformational change induced self-assembly process can result in the conversion from a random molecular phase to the formation of two types of ordered surface nanostructures with different apparent heights.

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A molecular conformational change induced self-assembly: from randomness to order

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